'Flip This Cave': Twitter Mocks Osama bin Laden's New Tape

When Osama bin Laden released his newest audiotape, which condemns the U.S.
for its role in global warming, he probably did not anticipate
this reception. As the world's most wanted terrorist, his tapes typically provoked rage, hatred and fear in the West. This week has been different. Earlier in the week, a similar
bin Laden tape claiming responsibility for the failed Flight 253 attack
was widely seen as evidence of his decline. Now, bin Laden's second message this week is generating Twitter spoofs.

Journalists and analysts are taking to Twitter with mock predictions of the al-Qaeda chief's next tape. Even serious terrorism experts are loosening up and getting in on the
fun. (Laughing at terrorists is evidently on the rise, with Jihadist comedy showing at Sundance.) It seems that the man who struck fear in the hearts of Americans is only hitting our funny bones now.

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